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31 May 2011
Hayes Valley Farm is a grass-roots response to Catastrophic Climate Change and Disabling Social Inequity. By addressing key issues of sustainability and conceptual approach in a fundamentally on-the-ground project, a farm, the project is reaching out with solutions and offering to teach valuable techniques which can have the positive impact needed to insure human survival into the future - both immediate and long-term.
Following community discussions and Public Sector partnering through 2009, Hayes Valley Farm broke ground in 2010. This internationally recognized Urban Permaculture Project is more than a demonstration farm. A developing model for providing access to very local food sources in the urban environment, Hayes Valley Farm is additionally reaching out to strengthen community bonds, educate all ages on the practical steps which can be taken to grow food and become more responsible in environmental stewardship, and partnering to develop successful models for a variety of community permaculture projects.
The steps which have been taken to address the big picture in a small way are dramatic. The transformation of a freeway-for-food on-and-off-ramp into a free way for food farm has been a remarkable, often astounding, application of volunteer effort which has exceeded all expectations in developing a working farm in the middle of San Francisco’s downtown. This one-big-step for man seeks additionally, through community development, interaction and support, to become one-giant-leap for mankind. This is the vision of Hayes Valley Farm.
Through on-the-ground reclamation of lands for sustainable agricultural purposes, community education and inclusion, and through focused personal development practices, to make manifest a developing and expanding network of local farms which will support local communities in learning, practicing and enjoying the work of sustainability. The core principles of Permaculture apply: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share, and are expanded on in the context of Public Inclusion, Open Education, and Community Integration. Hayes Valley Farm would like to be an instigator of your next salad, a model for your favorite summer camp weekend or working vacation, a resource for your award-winning kitchen garden, and a place of beauty to inspire you to become a part of the solution happening on a global scale to help insure the survival of the human race. We encourage you to join this vision, and invite you to 450 Laguna (between Oak and Fell) to come and see what is growing.
Photo by Daniel Farnan, February 7, 2010
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Over a thousand volunteers, neighbors, and community members have helped coordinate the farm efforts.